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[quote=”Mast3rL33″]
It’s darn near impossible to come up with something new and fresh these days in the way of TV programming.  After about 55+ years of TV viewing, there’s very little I haven’t seen before on network TV.
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So you’re saying Shatner makes a poor Archie Bunker?  I can’t argue with that 🙂

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I think so far the pilot of $#*! My Dad Says was the weakest episode. 

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I think so far the pilot of $#*! My Dad Says was the weakest episode. 

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Looks like Chuck and Chase are locked in for the season also:

http://www.nbc.com/news/2010/10/19/nbc-orders-full-season-pickups-for-new-drama-chase-and-for-returning-chuck/

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Looks like Chuck and Chase are locked in for the season also:

http://www.nbc.com/news/2010/10/19/nbc-orders-full-season-pickups-for-new-drama-chase-and-for-returning-chuck/

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Settlers is  a good game.  Lots of interaction since you need to trade resources with other players to get what you need.

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Settlers is  a good game.  Lots of interaction since you need to trade resources with other players to get what you need.

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I’ve never seen or played a GM-less RPG.  IMO, the simpler the rules, the more important it is for the GM to have control of the situation and being willing and able to adjudicate all of the oddball situations that come up.  IMO pretty much any rule system can be fun and engaging with the right GM.  It’s all about how well they can lay out the scenarios and often good storytelling is the key.

OK, that said, have you looked at the “How To Host A Murder” games?  I think those fit most of your requirements, but I’ve never played one.  As I understand it they’re basically canned mysteries and each player is given certain clues and they need to discuss things with other players to put the clues together and solve the mystery.

There are also some co-op boardgames out there if you haven’t tried them.  They tend to be light on the role-playing aspect but require coordination between the players to beat the board.  I haven’t played the D&D board game (nothing recent anyway) so I can’t say how good that is, but some others that I’ve played are Shadows Over Camelot, Arkham Horror, and Pandemic.  They might be worth looking into.

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I’ve never seen or played a GM-less RPG.  IMO, the simpler the rules, the more important it is for the GM to have control of the situation and being willing and able to adjudicate all of the oddball situations that come up.  IMO pretty much any rule system can be fun and engaging with the right GM.  It’s all about how well they can lay out the scenarios and often good storytelling is the key.

OK, that said, have you looked at the “How To Host A Murder” games?  I think those fit most of your requirements, but I’ve never played one.  As I understand it they’re basically canned mysteries and each player is given certain clues and they need to discuss things with other players to put the clues together and solve the mystery.

There are also some co-op boardgames out there if you haven’t tried them.  They tend to be light on the role-playing aspect but require coordination between the players to beat the board.  I haven’t played the D&D board game (nothing recent anyway) so I can’t say how good that is, but some others that I’ve played are Shadows Over Camelot, Arkham Horror, and Pandemic.  They might be worth looking into.

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If only these could be used as extenders then I’d be one happy geek also 🙂

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If only these could be used as extenders then I’d be one happy geek also 🙂

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I can’t say I’ve seen anything like this, but one issue I ran into when upgrading a video card a couple years ago is that if you have an older motherboard you may need a BIOS update to support newer graphics cards, so check your motherboard’s compatibility list.

In my case, video that had hardware accelerated decoding would cause the player to crash.  (I was moving from and nVidia 6600 to an ATI 4670 FWIW.)

I haven’t seen motherboard compatibility discussed much with relation to graphics cards, so it might just be an issue with my particular VIA chipset.

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I can’t say I’ve seen anything like this, but one issue I ran into when upgrading a video card a couple years ago is that if you have an older motherboard you may need a BIOS update to support newer graphics cards, so check your motherboard’s compatibility list.

In my case, video that had hardware accelerated decoding would cause the player to crash.  (I was moving from and nVidia 6600 to an ATI 4670 FWIW.)

I haven’t seen motherboard compatibility discussed much with relation to graphics cards, so it might just be an issue with my particular VIA chipset.

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[quote=”shadymg”]
wtf is Terriers about?
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You know, about halfway through the episode I was still asking that question 🙂

There isn’t a lot of explanation about what’s going on up-front.  You see the characters do something and think “wtf?” then later it gets explained, at least somewhat.  It’s certainly more entertaining than having the pilot be the “how we got here” story, but it’s confusing at times.  I assume they’ll continue telling the back story as they go.

I guess these two guys are supposed to be unlicensed private investigators (I got that from the web site, though they do call themselves that at one point during the episode but at the time it’s not clear if it’s supposed to be their focus or if it’s like the unemployed IT guy calling himself a “consultant” until he lands a new job.  The main premise seems to be these two small-time “investigators” run afoul of a powerful criminal and interesting situations should ensue.

We’ll see where it goes form here, anyway.

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[quote=”shadymg”]
wtf is Terriers about?
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You know, about halfway through the episode I was still asking that question 🙂

There isn’t a lot of explanation about what’s going on up-front.  You see the characters do something and think “wtf?” then later it gets explained, at least somewhat.  It’s certainly more entertaining than having the pilot be the “how we got here” story, but it’s confusing at times.  I assume they’ll continue telling the back story as they go.

I guess these two guys are supposed to be unlicensed private investigators (I got that from the web site, though they do call themselves that at one point during the episode but at the time it’s not clear if it’s supposed to be their focus or if it’s like the unemployed IT guy calling himself a “consultant” until he lands a new job.  The main premise seems to be these two small-time “investigators” run afoul of a powerful criminal and interesting situations should ensue.

We’ll see where it goes form here, anyway.

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